10 May 15
USB leads and battery chargers.Why does each device have a different USB lead and charger?
At home I have 2 laptops but the battery chargers are different.
I have 2 external hard drives each with different connections for power and the USB to the computer.
When going on holiday I have to take a small bag of them.
My e-book has a different lead to my partners
My camera has a different lead to my partners – even though we both have Lumix cameras.
Our mobile phones have different connections for the chargers.
It would be much easier if one or two leads fitted everything.
10 May 15
Originally posted by biffo konkerWhere do you live? I also have a lumix camera, 2 in fact, and they both have the miniUSB port for charging and uploading images to the laptop or PC. Same with my cell, we have T Mobile also and my wife has a Note 4 and I have a galaxy S3 and she has a tablet and ebook thingy and every one of those devices uses the same charging port.
USB leads and battery chargers.Why does each device have a different USB lead and charger?
At home I have 2 laptops but the battery chargers are different.
I have 2 external hard drives each with different connections for power and the USB to the computer.
When going on holiday I have to take a small bag of them.
My e-book has a different lead to ...[text shortened]... nt connections for the chargers.
It would be much easier if one or two leads fitted everything.
In the past, here in the US, I was VERY annoyed at what you are saying, every phone and device had a different charger and I think the industry got the hint and went to the miniUSB port device for everything.
One thing I just thought of in the annoying department: Going to the store this morning, they go, that will be $69.34 AND YOU SAVED $5.35.
No, I actually spent 69 bucks. That AND YOU SAVED seems to be the new religious mantra for every retail outlet now, it drives me up a wall.
10 May 15
Originally posted by sonhouseWell I take some of that back, we have a common charger but the miniUSB for the camera's. Still, only two charger shapes now.
Where do you live? I also have a lumix camera, 2 in fact, and they both have the miniUSB port for charging and uploading images to the laptop or PC. Same with my cell, we have T Mobile also and my wife has a Note 4 and I have a galaxy S3 and she has a tablet and ebook thingy and every one of those devices uses the same charging port.
In the past, here i ...[text shortened]... SAVED seems to be the new religious mantra for every retail outlet now, it drives me up a wall.
10 May 15
Originally posted by sonhouseI live in Germany. Maybe I was just unlucky!
Where do you live? I also have a lumix camera, 2 in fact, and they both have the miniUSB port for charging and uploading images to the laptop or PC. Same with my cell, we have T Mobile also and my wife has a Note 4 and I have a galaxy S3 and she has a tablet and ebook thingy and every one of those devices uses the same charging port.
In the past, here i ...[text shortened]... SAVED seems to be the new religious mantra for every retail outlet now, it drives me up a wall.
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11 May 15
Bill Gates/Microsoft
Mark Zuckerberg (worth 35.1 BILLION USD) I mean seriously, did the guy cure cancer? What would THAT be worth?
The kids across the street thumping that damn basketball on the street (is there any other more maddening noise?)
Having to enter account info on the keypad only to be asked by the support staff to give it verbally anyway
I could go on and on... but then you might mistake me for a crank.
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11 May 15
Originally posted by cashthetrashditto😠And I am really verbose.
I hate it when I start to send an in game message after writing a well thought out novel worthy post and suddenly the message window disappears right in front of my eyes never to reappear and I have to start all over again and it comes out to be crap instead.
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11 May 15
Originally posted by bks2000Might?
Bill Gates/Microsoft
Mark Zuckerberg (worth 35.1 BILLION USD) I mean seriously, did the guy cure cancer? What would THAT be worth?
The kids across the street thumping that damn basketball on the street (is there any other more maddening noise?)
Having to enter account info on the keypad only to be asked by the support staff to give it verbally anyway
I could go on and on... but then you might mistake me for a crank.
12 May 15
Originally posted by biffo konkerProprietary plugs are the potholes of the information superhighway.
USB leads and battery chargers.Why does each device have a different USB lead and charger?
At home I have 2 laptops but the battery chargers are different.
I have 2 external hard drives each with different connections for power and the USB to the computer.
When going on holiday I have to take a small bag of them.
My e-book has a different lead to ...[text shortened]... nt connections for the chargers.
It would be much easier if one or two leads fitted everything.
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12 May 15
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Originally posted by Great Big SteesHeineken can't even manage to smell skunky; you must be thinking of Grolsch.
And the "skunky" smell.
On which note: Limeys who think lager isn't real beer. They've never tried a proper one, only Stella, which they still think really is "Premium".
Also, Anglophones who respond "Gesundheit" if you use a word their throats are too wussy to be able to pronounce - like "Grolsch".